North Tabor Neighborhood Association
General Meeting
Date: Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: NorthStar Clubhouse 5600 NE Glisan St
Meeting called to order at 6:30 PM
Quorum verified
I. Intro of new board members and officers
Board members went around the room and introduced ourselves.
II. Intro of attendees
We had all attendees introduce themselves with address and purpose of attending meeting
III. Review and Approval of meeting agenda
Sarah Mongue motioned that agenda be approved as is and Lars Kasch seconded motion.
Agenda approved with no additions
Vote Taken:
All Yes
No opposition
IV. New Business suggestions
- Request from Sean Besso (lives on 47th across Burnside) to present on the Emergency Preparedness Team and to get someone from NTNA to represent on the team.
V. Neighborhood Watch and Patrols
Found that neighborhood watch program in NT has been very informal and less organized. It’s hit and miss throughout the neighborhood. Goal would be to get more formal and organized by block creating a NW Committee and have monthly meetings. This
Findings:
- Keren McCord (56th and Flanders) has been organizing families from 55th to 60th that would like to be trained in the Neighborhood Watch program protocols. Has contacted Mark Wells (Crime Prevention with OIN Neighborhood Watch Program Trainer) and will have a training for this group January 8th time TBD at ION offices.
- Lars Kasch has an informal crime watch on his block of 60th and Davis. Reports car break ins and suspicious activity through non-emergency line.
- Sam Fuquo (63rd and Oregon) has been a Neighborhood Watch block captain for 10 years. Reports crimes through non-emergency line and 911 if crime is in progress.
Tasks:
- Get Resolutions NW to present on conflict resolution in the coming months
- Create Neighborhood Watch Committee. Have committee organize Block Captain training for neighborhood. Maybe meet every couple of months.
VI. Survey results and open discussion of 2017 goals for NT
- Found that renter outreach is needed to participate in the survey and meetings.
Task: Cathy is working on sending out postcards to all renters in NT. Will present postcard at next meeting for review and approval for mailing.
- Purpose of Board needs to be defined
- Mission statement for NTNA
- More affordable housing around transportation NODES
Task: Will continue to review all the survey questions at the next couple of meetings.
VII. Land Use/Transportation Report and Introduction of committee
- Sam Fuquo and Will Roberts head the Land Use and Transportation Committee. They have decided to divide responsibilities with Sam taking Land Use and Will taking Transportation.
- Will wants to make improvements to the bus shelters at 60th and Burnside, 60th and Glisan and 60th Overpass. Will discuss at next meeting?
- First meeting is January 2nd @ 6:30 PM. Location TBD
VIII. Communications Report and Call for volunteers
- Starting to sell ads for the newsletter/paper
- Candace Jordan (email info to artneko@gmail.com ) will coordinate funds and client list (ad sales)
- Will keep advertisement funds and general board funds in separate accounts
- Need to draft an application for partnership letter to SEUplift to work with Atkinson, Glencoe, MT Tabor and Franklin HS students to write articles and artwork in the newspaper. Kim Kasch is heading up this project.
- Task: Kim needs to send Sarah the application and info that needs to be in the letter, so letter can be drafted and approved by the Board at next meeting?
IX. New Business
- Question if or not we should get Non-Exempt status (501)3c. Harmony says it costs about $800 to do so and only two other Neighborhood Associations have it (Eastmoreland and Sunnyside). We can use SEUplift as a sponsor for non exempt status when applying for grants and such already.
Task: Maybe more talk next month?
- Need to make a donation to NorthStar of $100 for a thank you to letting us use their meeting space. Also need to check and make sure that the last board sent donation for last year.
Task: Harmony, Josh and Sarah need to make sure that donation of $100 for this year and next gets paid to Northstar. Also need to get access to US Bank account to do this.
X. Approval of October Minutes
- Chuck Tubens motioned and Will Roberts seconded the motion to approval minutes as is.
Vote Taken:
All Yes
No opposition
XI. Treasury Report
- Sarah and Harmony got DOJ and OR Secretary of State paperwork completed and signed by Josh. Still need financial records for last year to send in with DOJ paperwork, along with fees. Once we have the report, we will ask for a vote to approve funds to complete this task.
- Full report will be at next month’s meeting.
XII. Ask for interest in additional board members
- No takers, but still working on it.